FARWEST: Efficient Computation of Wave-Particle Interactions for a Dynamic Description of the Electron Radiation Belt Diffusion
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Authors
Dahmen, N.
Sicard, A.
Brunet, A.
Santolik, O.
Pierrard, V.
Botek, E.
Darrouzet, F.
Katsavrias, C.
Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
radiation belts
wave particle interaction
diffusion equation
data assimilation
cold plasma density
magnetospheric VLF waves
Audience
Scientific
Date
2022Metadata
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In this paper, we present a new method to compute rapidly, wave particle interaction induced pitch angle and momentum diffusion coefficients. Those terms are normally obtained by the numerical solving of equations based on the quasi-linear theory. However, this bulk resolution leads to a high computational cost, preventing the integration of plasma density and VLF waves nowcasts and forecasts. Therefore, and in the context of the SAFESPACE project (H2020), we implemented a new wave particle interaction code called FARWEST (FAst Radiation diffusion with Waves ESTimator), with an efficient interpolation based method. The proposed implementation was validated against reference results obtained by WAPI, ONERA's wave particle interaction legacy code, with a substantial reduction of the computing time while conserving the physical accuracy of the generated coefficients. The FARWEST code is later used to measure the impact of a time-dependent plasma density distribution (numerically computed by BIRA's plasmaspheric model SPM) on the coefficients and on the representation of the electron flux map by Salammbô, ONERA's radiation belt code.
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Dahmen, N.; Sicard, A.; Brunet, A.; Santolik, O.; Pierrard, V.; Botek, E.; Darrouzet, F.; Katsavrias, C. (2022). FARWEST: Efficient Computation of Wave-Particle Interactions for a Dynamic Description of the Electron Radiation Belt Diffusion. , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol. 127, Issue 10, e2022JA030518, DOI: 10.1029/2022JA030518.Identifiers
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Article
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
eng